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Sudden blindness CRVO

Hi all.

In Oct. I was diagnosed with a central retinal vein occlusion in my right eye, which has taken most of my sight away. The occlusion is gone but the swelling is not. I still have alot of fluid in there, but my docs don't know why. I've seen a dozen docs to determined what has caused this. The only thing they can come up with is that my cholesterol is a little on the high side (genetics). I am only 36 years old. So, My doc has put me on a cholesterol lowering med and I am recieving injections every 5 weeks to reduce the swelling. They feel the damage to my sight is now permenant because my rods and cones have been so streched out.

Is there anything I can do? Do you think following a PWFD will change anything? I eat well and excercise. I don't smoke. I feel like there might be something wrong besides my cholesterol and nobody is catching it. I've had every test imaginable done.

Please help if you can.

Thanks,

Rich

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• Re: Sudden blindness CRVO -- Archive in eye. Walt Stoll [93.4968] 16:54:13 01/07/09 (0)

Re: Sudden blindness CRVO -- Archive in eye.

In Reply to: Sudden blindness CRVO posted by Rich [4673.7257] on January 07, 2009 at 16:25:30:

Rich,

It is probably too late to do anything about that eye's function. However without knowing why it happened, the only thing I can suggest is to immediately start the 3LS (three legged stool) to get healthy enough to prevent this happening to the other eye! The best "how to" reference I know of to do that is our new book "Recapture Your Health" which was written for someone like you!

In my opinion, it is VERY unlikely that the cholesterol had anything to do with this. Your docs are "grasping at straws", in my opinion, with little hope that "correcting" the cholesterol will do more for you than the incipient side effects of the drugs they are suggesting can harm you; read the package insert.

In the meantime, there are many resources on this website to get you started learning, Please let us know what you learn and ask any questions you come up with. There are many people on this BB who are knowledgeable enough to help.

Walt

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